Savion Williams

A physical specimen. Easy, immediate speed from the snap. He isn't the most twitchy player, but he has a quick first step off the line and smooth footwork when asked to gear down and drop his hips or at the top of his route stem. He has good bend on in-breaking routes. Williams was a manufactured touch king at TCU, with screens, handoffs, and Wildcat quarterback snaps. The TCU coaching staff focused on getting Williams involved in various ways every game. Williams has more than a few concentration drops on film, with at least an 11% drop rate in three of his final collegiate seasons. Overall, I'm not worried about his hands, as many of these are of the concentration variety. A better measuring stick for his mitts is his 75% contested catch rate in college. He has no issues keeping his focus with 50/50 balls in the air or passes outside of his frame. The ball placement from his quarterbacks at TCU didn't do him any favors. He was forced to adjust to plenty of inaccurate targets. Williams is a nice red zone threat with the size to box out smaller corners. Williams should be eased into a full-time traditional wide receiver role in the NFL. He has the traits to become a needle-moving wide receiver. In the limited snaps where he faced physical coverage at the line, he exhibited good hand fighting and the play strength to fight through it in his routes and earn separation, but it was a small sample.

It's hard not to like Savion Williams as a prospect - but there's probably good reason to summon up the willpower to pass on him in rookie drafts. Williams is 6-4 and 225 pounds with freaky athleticism and remarkable quickness. Sounds pretty good so far, huh? But Williams is an unusual WR/RB hybrid who topped out at 611 receiving yards during his college career. Rushing ability is part of the appeal. Williams had six TD catches and six TD runs last fall. Williams is probably too raw as a route runner to get heavy usage at wide receiver, and it's hard to tell how much an NFL team would be willing to use him at running back. Basically, we might be looking at the next Cordarrelle Patterson, and Patterson hasn't done much to help win fantasy championships during his career.